I find the best use for the second radio is to keep the band map open, and
when I see spots start to fill up, it is time to move to that band. I had
the second radio set on 10 meters and saw a few spots start to filter in and
went there and picked up 4 countries in about 10 minutes, then it went away
again.
I did the same thing on 15 when operating on 20. When I would see a bunch
of green mults, I'd go to 15 and start picking them up.
'Course, I do mostly S&P here now. 73
Tom W7WHY
>
> I think Randy's comments are right on the mark.
> I'd also like to add that the second radio isn't very useful unless you
> have another open band to use it on. That may not make sense to guys in
> the South, but up here it's not unusual to have only one band with
> reasonable propagation and that's it. More commonly you can't CQ
> successfully on any band, so now you're trying to S&P with two radios at
> the same time. That's a lot harder (at least for me) than the more typical
> arrangement where one radio is for running and the other is for S&P.
> Man do we need sunspots or what?
> 73 Steve K0SR
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